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JurisTalk – “What if the state no longer sexed us?: The political implications of abandoning a regime of assigned sex/gender status”
September 6, 2019 at 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: | 3400 Canal Building |
Cost: | Free |
Speaker:
Dr. Davina Cooper
Research Professor, King’s College, London, UK
This paper critically explores the value, challenges, risks and potential of abandoning legal gender status.
It emerges at the mid-point of a three year UK Research Council funded project, entitled “The Future of Legal Gender”
(see: “The Future of Legal Gender”)
Paper presentation, followed by responses from:
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Ann Cvetkovich, Director, Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies
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Stacy Douglas, Law & Legal Studies
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Lara Karaian, Criminology & Criminal Justice